The Sun. — London, England, 1809-08-25 00:00:00

same, date, -writes, that -havinv,dispatched Colonel' Dull Felipe La Corte, with 24d _horse, to attack post held' by 200;horse and 300 intoitry,ilie -exe cuted his commission with so much gallanty, that ht dislojged them from the heights bt ,c,ttei,ta de Reyna, killing 9 0 men and masking 28' Prisoners." — (Government Guz:ette ; Aug. 3.) c " .. CORDOVA, AUG. 3.--The approach of our armies towards Madrid has excited in that capital a ge - t letal commotion ; many left it on the 25th of July by Ole road of Alcorcor,n, with supplies of pro visions and whatever they could collea, in order to receive their deliverers in Madrid ;Ale hotels, coffee houses, and all the houses - of that description, w e re • otyln night and day. ,The populace with Bags pro cltime.d in/the streets Ferdinand the Seventh, and tW• Ftei)ch, shut tip El Retiro, pOsted placards, in which they stated, that the enemy was approaching; whoever wi,l el to secure their persons and, take arms,' should rendezvous tn',their defence at the said Itetiro. The GoVeritior,,tel)iard, Went , out on • hocsehaok i escorted by 60 cavalry . ,towards,the Tole do gate, telling the peopletotratiquillie theroselyes, that the enemy had not yet appeared:. -On the 27th he gave Orders to place double guards at the entrance of all the principal streets ,of the capital 'oh that' and. the folloWing day the exultation-in• Madrid - a t -' tattled such a lieit;ht that thoyJnsnleed the French the streets With shouts of "LongliVe Ferdinand the' Seventh !" throwing their hats up into the ay - , and the whole night there were d.itices ernoqg the com ma people. Cahnon have been placed . in the great square, and in that of Del Ang e l; ; on• the above .- mentioned days tielther letters of safety were isstied, nor were passports required latterly. It is said the gate ir of M ,arid have been shut! The -diVision of the M de Zarain arrived . on the 28 th:at Yaps:', that of Gaon and Vigedet at Aranjuez, that of Calse jou, at U.:Julia; the skiimishing parties everici to 'V , hlei:orii... 2 -I.lla people ,go out in . bodies to the roads, eicothitig the troops a t heir' deliverers ;it is a toot. az-1 - ;•,-ting scent to behold 'fierfCiiis of 'every ClaSs. orrei of water; brei:ll.l;'iM,Tici cheese, to the §olciters."—{Batiajos - Diarg.)'"'' " - NtAlLs. -1 • - AAR IV LD---I Dublin, .2 Wateiford. DuE-3 Gintenburgh, I Malta, t Warerfold. PRICE OF,STOCKS THOS DAY A7I TWILVL O'CLOCK. Consols rr LLE S. (3 N. QUIS DICIA' /dLaUle-AUDZAT? L 0 'IV D 0 IV, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1809. vdfi We have continued our extmels fronuthb Spanish and Portugn, , ie. Papers which arrit 5 - resterday.---: Nothing ca.; afford a strofi6r proof ort apprehen iion which the French entertain of an English, army, • than the immense efforts they have lately made to overwhelm, by a great .superiority, the_ troops un der the.comman& of - Sir 2-'‘alskttra WELLESLEY.— N sobt:er had the British army arrived on the frOn tiers of Spain, than IheFrerielr sacrificed.every other objea' to .sectire, if possible, its destru6tion. They withdrew all their troops from the Eastern Provinces —they left the whole of the NOrth unguarded, ex cept by a few troops in Garrisons. Their plans were well laid; mid their immense superiority of numbers would have ensured them success, if k had not been for . the unequ a ll e d bravery, of our troops, and the C ; , summate skill of their Commander. VICTOR, w itlr an army of double o-(ir numbers, was to have attacked us in front, while ,NEY and 50f, LT wzre t o, have cut otf ;t-treat. victory of Talavera, and the subsequent retntgrade moteinent to Alma entitely disconcerted this deep-laid plan. In Cie mean tinio, the most favliora!)le. opportunity. is giv n in Ole Spaniards in the Northern and Eastern Pi - oviac whit:A, as Are obser , --d before, are nearly lett &initiate of French troops. march of Nry and SOuLT South Ward, has,left .the Marquis DE iIo&“,NA- dicaost %,vithout an opponent ; a n d we have no dount that, with his usual inivity, he will avail himself of all the advantages NvWch his situa- Ofi ~kltiords. It is rather singular that ne official intelligenOe has yet reached this Country respecting ,the rupure of the which is said . to have taken place : • it is not mentioned in the Foreign Papers; on the contrpry,. the last Paris Journals contain a report that Peace had Actually been signed. This', however, is obviously not true ;- if such an event had taken place, the news of cours&would hat e been trans mitted to Paris with the utmost celerity,' and' the firing on the French Coast would soon • have .appr zed us of the fact. There cats be no doubt that some serious obsfaeles lnive retarded tie progress,- if they hae not entirely put an eld to the Negotiation. The facility with which t le rigyrous terms proposed oy ipUONAPARTE, when' he granted the Armistice, were acceded to, no doubt encouraged hitn to he equally high in ,negOtiating far a Peace,and there . appear i to be some reason tobelieve th a t at fist BLIONAPARTE thought that AUstria would concede any thing, ror the French Papers . ,told us, in. a sort of derni-official article, that -the bases of the Peace . were agreed upon. It is true that it was of great inwOrtance• to BUONAPARTE to have it believed on the C9ntineni, that'Austtia was so humbled in the contest, that she must accept. - vvliatever terms 4ere offered her, and that -therefore Peace wa3 so The, cettainty-;: of tßeare between France and A , l6lliA woutd, : liekn6v;,h c aVe a great el- feet in suppressing the insurrections whicl were-ex. , Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, and the Princess •. tending over the North o f G e r man y ; it wad damp AtaPusTa, accompanied -by Lady G. MO,ERAY,,Ge the hopes, and check the exertions ncrais CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY, Colonels :I AYLO of the Spatiards, and DESBROW, rode in Windsor Park till n00n,4 ,U and it might have produced some effed in suspend -7 then returned to the Nike: ing the efrorts which this Country was' imlung to . We are Sorry,ao hear that the Princesi SOPHIA was prevented by indisposition from taking her usual assist the common cause. The favourable reports of . ~ L• A,4 With LIB MAJESTY. the progr-ess 'of the Negotiation, might,Aeiefore, Yesterday afternoon a Cabinet Council was held have been-'circulated . by BUONAPARTE to answer at Burlington House,. at which were present his Grace the Duke of PORTLAND; the LORD CHANCEL tbese.objeets,:though he knew they were unfounded Loa, Earl. CAMDEN, BATHURST, HARROWBY, and in fgt. We have,- however, some reason to believe, LIVERPOOL; Lords MULGRAVE and LEMON' that BtIOisTAPARTE . has been considerably mistaken in Gow . k.R ; Mr. Secretary CANNING, ara the CHAN , his calcUlations upon this subjea. tie teund that CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. • A report prevailed yesterday, that the Armistice the panic which led to the unfortunate and dis- between Austria and France had not only terminated, graceful Armistice, had very much • subsided but that a battle had . .been fought. No such account ,when the Negot•iations for Peace cornmencLi.— i has, however, been officially received; Although the Austrians were beaten in the battle The Rotterdam and Utrecht Courants, and other . Dutch Papers to the 18th, have reached town. The of Wagram, ; the loss on both `sides was nearly equal, following isa he substance (*their contents , and we believe not much inferior to that ,which " The head-quarters Of the King of ,Hca.L f ofp they sustained,; at the battle of Aspern. In -the were at Capelle, near Rosendal, On the 17t11 • , * An article . from Antwerp says, reinforcements. of first moments of consternation tne ntmiStied was 600 moil arrive here daily from France and proceei to Capelle. We have nothing to fear in Cadsand, as we have a corps of eight or 9000 men there. Tile - 'corpS (.0 the Dutch General, GRATIEN, consisting of -' 8500 men ha; returned to Holland. " Commuu ications between Antwerp and Bergen op-Zoom are difficult, on account of the inundations that have been formed. The lines of Steinbergen art inundated, and the Polder of Bergen is likewise under water.• The Westphalian troops are advanc ,ing• to Holland by forced marches. An article from Vienna, of the 10th instant, states, that she two Emperors were to hare a meet ing at Raab. An article, of the 12th, says, that peace had not been signed, at that period; while ; other letters from . Vienna and Paris assert that peace • . was‘aitually concluded." It is atm, reported in private letters received` fran Rotterdam, that peace had been signed. agreed to, but ihe Austrians appear soon to have found'that the Enemy had buffered as much as them ; selves, and that he • had not an equal facility of re cruiting his ranks. They knew that a powerful EX 7 pedition from this Country .as about to attack a vital - part of BUONAPARTE:S Empire, and, thereiore, aitet the Negotiation had proceeded to a certait length, they began to assume a . tone which . delayed ifs progiess, and we believe finally broke it oti but, as we before stated, no official intelligence to that effeet has reached this Country. Just before this Taper was put to ress,, we re ceived German Papers to the 12411 inst. We had only time to make.the following cxtra.;.ls from them : .BANKS 'OF THE ,ELBE,_ "AUG. i t.-Ali letters reaching 113, Via Berlin, from Boheinia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia, Tender the proipeet of peace very uncertain. The Prague official Gazette, of the. ad-iost. -even boasts of resources. which the. Austrian army still has, for carrying on the war with effect. Th 6 Austrian army will, it is said, not including the Landwehr, (Militia,) be shortly increased 10350,000 men. Yesterday the rumour of notice haying been given by the Austrians to the French, on the 30th of July, that the Armistice would be broken, was general on the Hamburgh Exchange; and the rich . Jew broker, HEhscHER, actually-re ceived this intelligence by an Estafette, from a Cor respondent in Bohemia. The Berlin Gazettes; however, down to the 9th inst. are silent on this subjeet. BRANDENBURGH, AUG. 8.:--Tiiere iR not as yet any official accounts respeding the rumour of no tice having been given 'to break of tire- Armistice.— (Correspondent. Aug. li.) MORAVIA, AVG. I.—We learn that the Archduke CHARLES has, owing to bad . health, resigned the Command' of the army, and that Prince ,JonN of Lichtcnstien has taken it pd interim. We are told by the Opposition Writers, that they " feel no pleasure in anticipating national disaster, ..but on .the contrary, should rejoice if even .0 h(ippy accident occasionally averted the conseque►ices of systematic error." If we were disposed to give cre►tit to such declarations from the Writers i►t question, we should be much inclined to pity them fair being so very unfortunate in their manner of elc . pressing their feelings ;, for, however ardent may be their wishes for the national prosperity, it is certain that whatever triumphs may attend , their .Country, their exultation bears the aspe& of regret, and whiltever, • plans may be in agitation, their hopes of success al- Letters of the 18th have reached town from H . land. ,By these it 'appears, th.rt every man capable of hearing arms is sent off to theAetence of Flanders, 'Where, said, a considerable French force had ar rived. Cairene is the place 61 rendezvous for the re intorcenient trout various quarters. ROTTERbAM, AVG. 15.—1 take advantage of the first Opporti . miry to give you some information, as since the 14th ulr. all com:ounication has been stopped by means of a c (-robargo On account .of the landing has taken I , lace, tln country is- in Confusion, and every mart Aho can nt h is'in rto (ion, in order to gua'd the coast ; as grz..lt care i taken lest t-e Env to-ing .4)A landed, sbottd throilititry v.ith their products. Toe Chagsturs all the oi.po.able force s in aCt.vity. of tiie Citiz,tis is carried into effect, and. "vnitintcer Corp% d'elite :ire t..rme I; which are to march "td the - , fn 'u iers. It is -a ti, that in Bran ,nt there are 62,000, Frenchmen ; on our part, all are well disposed. Corn 1 , , rison,so per cent." 13 , ision Papers to the 23d ult. which were receiv ed y„st v rday, some very severe stri&nres on in , non-raitication of the stipulations agreed., upon by Mr. ERSKINE and the Goven i me n t oi zl w States. They Mr. EtISKINR'S conform -ItylOMS - instructions was a quesiion between him and his own Gcwernnient but that there could be a inedhn between war and the ratification of the treaty acceded to by hint.• . It is asc:Ttaiiied beyond a doubt, that there were, upwards ot 200 ot the Irish .13rtade io Flushing, both before it was, invested, :If id tor some time at terwaids. The greatest part ot them, hojivevef,' escaped in small boats to Cadsand, and oihu,ptilare' fallen into our hands. ways appear like predidionsA miscarriage. Must it not then appear very extraordinary that with all these wishes for the welfare of the country, no "happy accident" should occur which may she*-that the Opposition Writers are not; to use their own word, in systematic their host to Ministers; and deter.; mined to censure the.measures of Gvvernment, uot only after they are•^arried"into effect, 'but even while they are in preparation, "and before their objects can posgibly be known ? Surely we might now and then ex peat that some "happy accident, - even if it YOUNG says— A t thigy man - suspects himself a foal, " K.rows it at joqr, anct,reivrins his pian.7, - BUoNAPAKTE reached hi% 40th year WI the 16th instant, and though he has had more reason to sus pect himself of being a rogue than a fool, tt must be uhivetsatly admitted that he has full, occ - isioo to set about a reform. Indeed it may be questioned, With ail and all his uonderhal success, whetlha - his coridud on the whole dues not savour of •evretne folly for it he - had aeted_ wisely, ,he might have reigned securely o ver F rance , and found an ample provision for his-relations and dependents in that country ; by toicirtg' them on so many vi net states, ne has .excited universal detetaiion ; he has indUced all people to look with most anxious solicitude for the happy tubment of his(leath., and when that shall arr ive , th ere w ill i b e an, end or - Alt the power of those who 'owe their usurpations to his of rannic4i and -oppressive Authority. . . Several judges of timber are on the point of ern- WI king from Plytnokit h. Dock -for Prince Edward's Island, Quebec, and other parts of America, for the, purpose ()1 - making large purchases of timber, the scarcity of which in ihis - country has long been, se verely telt. The very liberal-subscription which was--raised in this CiOuntrY some tire ago , tOr,the untortnnate per- Scins who snared by the dreadful expl o si on w hi c h took pltice at Leyden, , are sorry to, say, - never reached the. persons for WllOl2l it 'was &Sighed. -It was =sent . ' - over'. to Holland, btu King LOtit„s got posseSkibti,of it, and leas kept it. The good people of Holland have, upon this Su . bje.l,, . drawn comparisons b e t ween t h e conduet"-Of.their., 'Enemies and 'their Sovereig n ,' whiCh are vi!ry „ faVoUrable to the latter. t 'Ai' the tragedy.at Macbeth is . speedity'lii be cor:- ire - red-into a ballet, - ve . may expect to see all the aerial spirits of the race of Banguo engaged •in a. dance,' with, perhaps, a pas* Veux - betkk'eeti the Ghosts of &Ingo° and -Duncan. All this, of cOurse,. Will be highly gratifying - ,to the Shade of StIPOiR SPBAItit. • were a blunder, would break the dull uniformity of complaint, and 'induce ,us to Suppose that they ;are not systmatic in their opposition to every public measure, for no other reason than because they hate no hand in the direction of the na tional concerns. Vut We beg their pardon; for, this day, contrary to what they have so often said against Sir ARTHUR - WELLESLEY, in adverting' to the battle of 7'alavera, they not only adMit the undaunted va lour of the British troops, but "the con , urnm,ne skill of their Commander." This is indeed a "hap- py acticlent" in favour of the, Opposition Yriii'rs, =,hews that a ray of truth and candour May times break through the clouds of party vr, judice. We hail it as a good omen, and shall be gl fi n d, that, however systematic they may •be at tacks on Ministers, they will at least soMetitho en. cleat/our to do justice w the merit of one oc the brightest ornaments in- the military. aLioals_ oe tll3 Country.' We wonder by what ' means Mr.l - kor-could con, tri%'e to introduce a new drama to the Licenser. He certainly. must have, prefaced his way'in a manner somewhat different Irvin that in which 'he issued from' the press his !ocherous Fat ce of 'Killing no Murdei% Tuesday an inquest was held at the sign olthe in Curtain-road, Shoreditch . ,on.the body of &labouring man Of the name of Poi tiT, who had hung himself in Wood's-buildings, „c4itain road TI:lo::day morning. It appeared-.h'at deceased w ai 'i n a melancholy state for several days. The Jhry therefore recorded a verdia of Lunacy. • ) NAVAL N EW•-!. . f ,PrymouTu, AUG. 2g.—Saited the Cfvinnis• gun twig on- a cru4e ; and the Serdlower sloop of war, with the Tiger - . tratispon under con►oy, laden with provisions, tor Corunna. AUG. 23.—Arrived the ketch Commerce, CREVVS, from Teneriffe, laden with- wine, bound to this port; the sloop Union packet, of Glatow, CLELLAR mas ter, from Barcelona, Malaga, and Gibraltar, laden with' wine., bound to this port, fur orders : on her passage she encountered a heavy gale of wind; in which she sprung her maittin' sot : several ships dirt were in 'company with her alsn received consider- able damage in the same gale. Arrived the NicizaLs, from Lianelly. PORTSMOUTIT, ACM ; 24.—Arrived the Iris frigate from the West Aard. S:►lled the Goshawk sloop of war, on a cruize. DEAL, AUG. s. ) 4,—Catlie down from the river, the Hannah, FANNING, for New-Yo'rk and Whim, DoiIRALL, for Alters, and remain with a large fleet of outward-boMid , merchaiii men. EASTBOURNIs:AOG..24,—Two ships were taken off'Beachy-head, iast night, t) t+A 0 h Tuggers. Ohe of thew I beli..te, was Iron] Oporto, the tither I took to be an. Auterieln. NEWHAVEN, AUG ! 24.—A galiior was taken otl' this place yester,ay, and a brig this niornivg. A.S. A ship, aiparently of 6 or 700 tons'burthen, has jAst been taken by a IA ivateer. ,Extradofa Letter, from 'Captain G,KON GE HONR I NE, of the brig NlaglGna, to the 0 whersoi that vessel in beliast,daud ' GottenbutAli, 141 n nary : "I have the - pleasnre . tO say, , that lath so far safe, and all well, after a passage of ,12 days itoul London. Five dais after We sailed we kst the, convoy in a fog, and after endeavotning in vain . • to fad in with uteri, we proceeded on our, le. ).i.ge '-7-Liast Thursdalive made the Jutland coast ; about five leagues off which we were altricked; ' abot.t 5 p. 771. by one of the Danish g. it-boats, having up wards of 20 num 0irb,4 0 ., with mounted swi%.el', on , large gun, and a J quantity 'of small At hdf s past five we began to fire on them ,%ith the only guns we had on board, being to o small swivels, -. which ',Were ‘well load d nit hall and Ari:): -shut ; after the two first fires we dis t,ii;i:t.y heard the cries 'and groans - of the wounded ut the boat's! crew. 'They however continued rho anion "till within a quintet of seven, worn s'e com pelled to_ sheer off, with considerable loss, they Having fourteen men at the oars when they , fir attacked t 3 ,4, and . could only muster fO ur to row away. My small crew fought like Britons ; anti I 4` have the satistaction to say, that none 01: board was hurt 7 ~ u r 'ads and rigging are much - damaged. E.;i4 , ./'" ant sorry, however, to a d, !hilt 14.1.1 r ve-oielsdeati .cpnvoy were taken ny tile J.) aritsh soil-buattit:!•,.;• Avo. 23. The town is now as tun ot company as it is likely to be this .year, though numbers of the nobilit and .gentry who have taken houses;tor t ; e season are not yet arrived. Lord and Lady Trimlesion, 'Count , sS. D'Alion, and a party of Fashionable., army,d here ih,a pleasure-yacht from Green Wit ie on Tnursdai last. The amusements at the Libraries are cerianilf more inviting tins season titan any former n 1; et could boast ot. - Al Benison's, Miss D n.,et .sings every morning, much to the entertainment of her admirers. Mr. Turnbull's songs, with Mr. Ansell'il aci.ompanim, Fits on the piano -torte, have crowded Falli ter aad Boustield's Room., i.; nh ty and las lon. Mr. Masnit's " Giles Scroygins," on Sa' turday night, 'banished gravity from every face ia tie Library ; it was loudly encored, and sang witlx increased 'Area. The B;Als are now to ice a week. Miindays and Thursdays. Weippert's,Musical pro' .o.enade, every Wednesday evening, has met great success; his extraordinaay execution on the pedal-harp,-and his amiable daugh er's pet tOrmance on tile piano-forte, have been spoken ot,in terms of the highest praise. • • Mr. Webb's benefit at the Theatre, tinder the pa tronage of Lord and Lady Tinadt-,ston, on .MotniaY n'ght, was a bumper. Mrs. ackons, ut Covent garden, we un.terstand, is expected e.trlt itt Severn ber. A va-t number of persons' N. 'sited Dandi 110 3 on Wednesday. With a continuance of the fine weather, e very . thing bids fair for a flourishing season. • WEXFORD,. AUG. P7.-"--On Monday evening, On consequenCe of an unpleasant altercalion ha. o'g Nicer) place at a Gentleman's 'seat near Enniscort Y' \I here a large party had dined that day), a duel ,Was fougkiT between J s G--ff, and L-4—e; Esqrs. Alter exchanging a shot each across .a table without effect, the attait was antic iblv 0 47 ,justed, through` the interference of the seco: (k. Tuesday ereirng the Sarah, ot,VVextoru, PARLE master,' bound to Liverpool, with a cargo of oats, butter, and feathers, suddenly became so leaky that the crew were obliged to run her on snore at Cahore Ntit, near Courtown Bay. It the vceatbe!'' 'proves moderate, it is expected that the vessel au d most.of the cargo wiil be saved. SUDDEN "DEATH.—On Wednesday ni l,t, as Misl: Emily. Harriet Hodgeson was leas ing the noun- Mrs. fiantuot„ in Portland -street, she bad spent the evening with 'a party, she dropped sud denly, whilst stepping into a coach with her br°: iher, and expired in a tow minutes. It turned out that h r death was occasioned by an apoploCtic fit• ELOPEMENT.---The t wo.d.aughters of a Merchan t . have eloped true, their home in the neighbourhood of Hammersmith, withtn these ten days. T ile youngest, Who is only 17 years of . age, went oil, u" Wednesday . se'nnight, with a- Uri Bro , d-stree l ' .arid they have not since been heard on,. The el`" " St ' 22 yearS of age, is supposed to, have abscntel self with a wan of property, and of notorious 5 1 • ]angry.